This presentaion is a 5 minuttes lightning talk that presents Zabbix-CLI.

Zabbix-cli is a tool for managing some administration tasks in monitoring systems running Zabbix.

It is a terminal client written in Python that uses the Zabbix-API to connect to your Zabbix installation. It has been developed and tested by members of the Department for IT Infrastructure at the Center for Information Technology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

A case study showing the problems we have resolved with Zabbix and the challenges we had when we implemented Zabbix as the main monitoring tool at the University of Oslo.

The number of challenges is not low in an organization as heterogenous as ours, with many thousands of servers and clients, all kinds of devices connected to our infrastructure, different operating systems, multiple locations and hundreds of IT staff. Full automation and delegation of privileges are the key words in the work we have done during the past year and a half.